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Hear on CNN just now: 11 to 15 million Americans could be gettting noticed that their insurance policy is dropped/no longer available.

Posted by Inigo (aka Inigo) Oct 29 '13, 09:38

With the most likely result being that the new policy is more expensive than the old one.

If that indeed does happen, the government shutdown won't be the big issue during election time. Obamacare will.

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According to Ezra Klein, approximately 15 million people buy their health insurance. - ty97 Oct 29, 09:43 17
- (that's actually Sarah Kliff, but it's still Wonkblog) -- nm - ty97 Oct 29, 09:48 5
  - Here is the perfect quote from the column. - David Oct 29, 09:52 4
    - It's a great point, but it doesn't address the mislead on "If you like your insurance, you can keep it". - ty97 Oct 29, 09:54 3
      - The column itself does. "It's a feature, not a bug." I just didn't quote that part. -- nm - David Oct 29, 10:01 1
        
        Precisely. It's a feature. Which directly contradicts the President's repeated statemented that you could keep your insurance. - ty97 Oct 29, 10:04
      - Yes, this was the point of the CNN piece. -- nm - Inigo Oct 29, 09:56
- But this flies in the face of Obama's repeated comments that if you liked your insurance, you could keep it. - Will Hunting Oct 29, 09:45 10
  - Absolutely. Which the article mentions -- Obama and the Dems must have known this, so why keep saying it? -- nm - ty97 Oct 29, 09:49 6
    - I think they assumed people with non-compliant policies weren't happy with them. -- nm - mara Oct 29, 10:08 1
      - right. -- nm - znufrii Oct 29, 10:10
    - Becuase they are inept. - Will Hunting Oct 29, 09:51 3
      - I don't but that here. They weren't ignorant about what would happen. - ty97 Oct 29, 09:53 2
        
        I was giving the benefit of the doubt between incompetence and lying. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 29, 10:00 1
        
        In politics, always go with the lying. -- nm - ty97 Oct 29, 10:05
  - I think he was banking on the ire being directed at the insurance companies. -- nm - nubby Oct 29, 09:47 2
    - If so, that's another mistake he's made - Will Hunting Oct 29, 09:51
    - he definitely banked wrong then -- nm - Jovian Oct 29, 09:50
Basically what happened here with a nice long letter explaining why AHC was to blame - kilbooooo Oct 29, 09:43 1
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The shutdown was never going to be the big issue during the election cycle 12 months from now. -- nm - ty97 Oct 29, 09:40
^ heard -- nm - Inigo Oct 29, 09:39

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Hear on CNN just now: 11 to 15 million Americans could be gettting noticed that their insurance policy is dropped/no longer available.

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